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Legal English

Year

2022

Language

ENGLISH

Publication Information

Marcin Skurzak

Summary

Improve your legal vocabulary and comprehension of texts written with the use of jargon of legal practitioners. Designed by a lawyer and legal English teacher, this workbook helps you to understand more than 400 legal expressions and 80 business phrasal verbs. It sets the terminology in a daily-life context and provides efficient explanations as well as sentence use. The workbook covers elements from 18 areas of law, including human rights law, public international law, business law, IP law and family law. The focus is on the operation of law in the UK and US jurisdictions. The book has over 180 exercises, and each chapter has its own glossary section and answer key. It will suit both advanced self-learners and teachers of C1-and-above language courses.